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Gamer Theory
Ever get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides, one you are compelled to play yet cannot win? Welcome to gamespace. Gamespace is where and how we live today. It is everywhere and nowhere; the main chance, the best shot, the big leagues, the only game in town. In a world thus configured, McKenzie Wark contends, digital computer games are the ...more
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published
April 30th 2007
by Harvard University Press
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Who is this book written for? Game Designers? I don't know many designers who could dig through and decipher prose like this:
"When the topographic develops one dimension of telegraphy--its flow of information across space--the topological develops the other--its intricate coding and addressing. Where the topographic is an analog flow, the topological is the digital divide. It is a line of another type. It is a line that, for a brief, burning moment, reignited the dreams of a topos."...more
"When the topographic develops one dimension of telegraphy--its flow of information across space--the topological develops the other--its intricate coding and addressing. Where the topographic is an analog flow, the topological is the digital divide. It is a line of another type. It is a line that, for a brief, burning moment, reignited the dreams of a topos."...more
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I'm trying to put away my judgmental pants while reading this, but it's difficult.
I had to skim parts of this book, but it got me thinking about various things. It's interesting to see how a book initially presented online translates to paper publishing.
I had to skim parts of this book, but it got me thinking about various things. It's interesting to see how a book initially presented online translates to paper publishing.
ugghh too pithy.
Very disappointing - posturing, pretentious, muddled and juvenile. This author is trying way too hard to sound cool; he comes off more like a parody of Wired magazine cross-bred with a bad imitation of Hunter Thompson. This is one of those books that leads me to mourn the money I spent to buy it and the time I wasted reading it, and to make a note of the author's name so I never buy anything else of his.
Here is a link to my review from the Brooklyn Rail, June 2007 issue:
[http://brooklynrail.org/2007/6/books/nonfiction-looking-for-utopia]
[http://brooklynrail.org/2007/6/books/nonfiction-looking-for-utopia]
Just re-read. Wark is a genius. A touch of humor and, for me, the defining book of our digital era.
this book needs a constant update. A good book nevertheless.
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